Kant defined enlightenment as a process for the individual to get rid of self-incurred immature state,in which he learns to get courage to use his own reason and address openly to the public through his own academic works and applies the reason to all human beings.In this case,enlightenment of either an individual or masses has become a liberal education with profound connotation.As the enlightenment of liberal education,it has confined itself to the field of speech freedom and the reason is its only boundary.According to the internal logic of the enlightenment and the sociality of speech,the liberal education has three important effects:the reason generated in experiments,the illocutionary act and the practice community.%康德把启蒙定义为个体摆脱自我招致的未成熟状态的一个过程，在这个过程中，个体要学会有勇气使用自己的理性，借由学术著作自由公开地向大众讲话，把理性应用于人类一切的事物。这样，无论个体还是大众的启蒙都已经是一种有着深刻内涵的自由教育了。作为启蒙的自由教育把自己限制在言论自由的领域之内，理性是其唯一的界限。根据启蒙的内在逻辑以及言语的社会本性，自由教育有三个重要的效果：首先是理性在实验中生成，其次是以言行事，最后是生成实践共同体。
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